Silva & Aegis

Tenno Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Silva & Aegis
Untradeable
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General Information
Type	Sword and Shield
Mastery Rank Requirement	0
Max Rank	30
Slot	Melee
Trigger Type	N/A
Utility
Attack Speed	1.00x animation speed
Block Angle	70°
Combo Duration	5.0 s
Disposition	●●●●○ (1.20x)
Follow Through	0.6x
Range	2.50 m
Noise Level	Silent
Sweep Radius	0.25 m
Normal Attack
98 ( 100%)
Total Damage	98 (100.00%  Heat)
Attack Speed	1.00x animation speed
Crit Chance	5.00%
Crit Multiplier	1.50x
Fire Rate	1.000 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Silent
Status Chance	20.00%
Heavy Attack
Heavy Damage	490
Slam Damage	392
Radial Damage	392
Slam Radius	8.0 m
Wind-up	0.7 s
Slam Attack
Slam Damage	294
Slam Radius	7.0 m
Radial Damage	98
Slide Attack
Slide Damage	98
Slide Element	Heat
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	SWORDS_AND_SHIELD_STANCE
Riven Family	Silva & Aegis
Introduced	Update 14.0 (2014-07-18)
Polarities	None
Sell Price	5,000
Stance Polarity
Variants	Silva & Aegis  Silva & Aegis Prime
Vendor Sources
Article Categories
Weapons Tenno Weapons Heat Damage Weapons Sword and Shield Silva & Aegis Melee Weapons N/A Weapons Base Silent Weapons Untradeable Weapons Available In Conclave

CODEX

This fiery sword and shield combination perfects the balance of Tenno offense and defense prowess. In the hands of a Master, even a defensive tool like a shield can be used as a weapon.

The Silva & Aegis is a -based sword and shield combo weapon introduced in Update 14.0 (2014-07-18), and is the first fan-designed weapon from DE's Community Melee Weapons contest to be added in-game. It features a very high blocking ability, allowing the player to shield themselves from enemy attacks more efficiently than most other melee weapons.

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
20,000	3	600	1,200	1	Time: 12 Hour(s)
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 150			Blueprints Price:15,000
Tenno Lab Research3,000
20,000	2	500	60	300	Time: 3 Day(s)
					Prereq: N/A
x1   x3   x10   x30   x100

This weapon can be sold for 5,000 Credits 5,000.

Characteristics

This weapon deals damage.

Advantages:

• Innate damage – effective against Infested and Cloned Flesh.
  • Can also be combined to form , or .
• High status chance.
• High blocking effectiveness, reducing up to 85% of incoming damage.
• Blocking increases both critical and status chance by 15% to the next attack.
  • Chance bonuses can be stacked 4 times.
• Ground finishers are guaranteed to inflict a proc.
• AoE knockback on ground slam.
• Wide swings can hit targets slightly behind the player
• Shield Bashes deal proc.
• Can use the Silva & Aegis exclusive  Avenging Truth mod.

Disadvantages:

• Innate damage – less effective against Proto Shields.
• Low critical chance when not blocking.
• Below average critical damage.
• Short range.

Comparisons: Comparisons:

•  Silva & Aegis (Normal Attack), compared to  Silva & Aegis Prime (Normal Attack):
  • Lower base damage (98.00 vs. 318.00)
    • Lower  Heat damage ( 98 vs. 318)
  • Lower total damage (98 vs. 318)
  • Lower base critical chance (5.00% vs. 25.00%)
  • Lower base critical multiplier (1.50x vs. 2.00x)
  • Lower base status chance (20.00% vs. 30.00%)
  • Higher attack speed (1.00x animation speed vs. 0.75x animation speed)
  • Lower Mastery Rank required (0 vs. 12)
  • Higher disposition (●●●●○ (1.20x) vs. ●●●○○ (1.05x))
  • Lower block percentage (85% vs. 90%)

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Notes

• When adding elemental mods for combination, this weapon's element is added last.
• It is highly recommended to set and damage on this weapon as this combination is very effective against all factions, besides Corpus due to their Proto Shields, and gives the player immense control over higher level enemies due to the weapon's high status chance.

Trivia

• The Pyra Syandana uses Aegis's geometry and textures, albeit moved around and scaled differently.
• The shield sticks onto the Tenno's arm regardless of equipped status, and when unequipped, the sword is inserted into a sheath behind the Aegis.
• Because the blade of the Silva itself is made from an additive material, elemental visual effects such as and (which are additive particles) are not as visible.
• When equipped by a Specter, the shield will always be active regardless of their equipped weapon.
• Upon its release, the Silva and Aegis featured the same amount of stamina consumption as all melee weapons, which spawned negative feedback regarding the shield's usefulness. The weapon has since received a stealth-buff that gave it significantly decreased stamina consumption on blocking. Upon the release of Update 17.0 (2015-07-31), it no longer requires stamina and instead has a very high damage reduction.
• This is the first:
  • Sword and Shield class melee weapon introduced into the game.
  • Weapon to be created from the three Community Melee Weapon Contest Winners.
  • Melee weapon in the game to deal pure damage as its primary damage type.
• On jump attacks, the Silva will emit a ring of flames identical to that created by the Heat Sword, Heat Dagger and Dual Heat Swords. Unlike said weapons however, this effect on the Silva is cosmetic only.  
• Silva & Aegis shield will remain spread out if you utilize Excalibur's Exalted blade while using the melee weapon. The shield will retract if you use Radial Javelin or Radial blind, however the slide radial blind will not retract the shield.  
• Aegis is presumably named after the Aegis, an artifact (commonly depicted as a shield) used by the Greek goddess Athena, with a carving of a gorgon's head on the front.
  • Silva is likely a reference to player Silverbones, the designer of this weapon.

Bugs

• Due to how thin its shield is the Silva & Aegis will often clip into the arms of the Warframe wielding it. This is purely visual and has no effect on gameplay.

Media

• Silva & Aegis in Codex.
• Silva & Aegis
• Silva & Aegis
• Color options. (Tint 4 is for the sword hilt)
• Ember Prime is all fired up.
• Showing the sword draw and shield expand

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See also

• Silva & Aegis Prime, the Prime variants the Silva and Aegis.